Patricia Baez, SVP, People, Americas Region for DP World, was named a recipient of the 2025 Women in Supply Chain award, presented by Food Logistics and Supply & Demand Chain Executive and sponsored by Let's Talk Supply Chain, in the Workforce Innovator category.
Baez is a human capital leader with over two decades of experience in workforce strategy, organizational development, and inclusive talent innovation across the global supply chain industry.
Currently serving as SVP, people for DP World's Americas Region, Baez oversees the strategic people agenda for more than 16,000 employees across ports, logistics, and economic zones throughout North and South America. Her career with DP World spans over 20 years, beginning in the Dominican Republic, where she advanced through HR leadership roles while also managing IT, sustainability, and Lean process improvement functions. She later joined DP World’s global headquarters in Dubai, where she helped shape talent and organizational strategy for Group IT and international supply chain operations, before landing at the company’s regional Americas headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
What sets Baez apart is her ability to connect business performance with people development by creating programs that drive both talent growth and measurable operational outcomes. She is the architect behind DP World’s Lean Six Sigma Recognition Program in the Americas, which empowers employees to develop and implement efficiency-improving projects.
She’s also a passionate advocate for women in logistics. Her Women in Operations framework began in the Dominican Republic by training young women from underserved communities, including an all-female orphanage, in logistics roles. Several graduates went on to participate in internships at DP World, and others have enrolled in university with the aim of building careers in supply chain. This successful framework has since been expanded to Brazil, Peru, Suriname, and Ecuador.
To build the next generation of supply chain professionals, Baez also launched a graduate rotational program across the Americas, where recent university graduates are immersed in multiple facets of the business, such as operations, tech, and commercial, and mentored by senior leaders.
Baez has created an end-to-end workforce development pipeline in an industry facing a labor crisis—from training high school students to preparing future executives. What makes her efforts “worth noting” is the integration of community impact, diversity, and measurable business outcomes. Whether she’s partnering with an orphanage to train the next generation of women operators or saving her company half a million dollars through employee-led efficiency projects, Baez proves that investing in people is not just the right thing to do; it’s also a strategic advantage.
